Child Financial Harms Research
The Child Financial Harms programme is conducting research into the ways children are spending, making and losing money online.
Developing Parents' Digital Financial Capability
Apr 2025
Children and parents’ financial skills and confidence are closely linked. What system changes might help enhance parents’ digital financial capability?
Developing Parents’ Digital Financial Capability - report.pdf
Short changed and out of time
Feb 2025
A report into families facing financial harms alone. Research by Parent Zone based on a parent poll discussing Child Financial Harms.
Communicating about Child Financial Harms to Media and Policy Audiences
Feb 2025
A Future Narratives Lab guide for organisations on how to most effectively communicate to raise awareness of Child Financial Harms as a distinct and urgent issue.
Child Financial Harms – A messaging guide
A problem hiding in plain sight?
Nov 2023
Parent Zone is increasingly concerned about online financial harms for children. But exactly how much financial agency do children have online – and how are they spending, making, and losing money?
